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From the shameless self-promotion department, this: last week Brookings published my recent paper on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems---drones---into our national airspace.
The piece identif...
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This would certainly have national security implications.
The White House promises to respond to online petitions that receive 25,000 signatures.
This one has more than 29,000:
Secure resources and fun...
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Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v.
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As you may have read by now (reports from the New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good), that the WCIT conference has ended in disarray. The United States and a number of other Western countr...
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The Wall Street Journal has an article today, titled “U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens.” It reports:
The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to exam...
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The Times has an op-ed today on the WCIT conference in Dubai. Who knows, maybe this is one Ben will agree with.
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The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security has released audio recordings of its recent conference in Washington.
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It's a rather useful, CRS-like report, entitled "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones): An Introduction." It opens:
This note provides an introduction to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by the UK ...
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That is the title of Eric Posner’s essay in Slate reacting to Jeh Johnson’s Oxford speech. The first part of the piece roughly tracks some of the points I made last week, but then Eric widens the lens:...
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This Lawfare post serves as a running list of links to articles, documents, or other materials related to the regulation and legal review of autonomous weapons systems (or increasingly automated weapons ...
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As Ritika already noted, George Will has a column in today's Washington Post about drones and targeted killing. In it, he poses a question lots of people ask about drone strikes and that warrants a momen...
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A colleague just pointed this out to me today. Buried in the Senate-approved NDAA is Section 936, which would require the Pentagon to "establish a process" for defense contractors that have classified i...